2018 Board of Trustee

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Board of Trustee


Yukyong Choe
Yukyong Choe is a Research Fellow at Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI), a government-funded research institute specializing in legislation and policy making in the Republic of Korea. She received her LL.M. & JSD degrees from the UC BerkeleyLaw. Before she went to Berkeley, she got her Master in International Law and was a Ph.D. candidate at Seoul National University after getting her B.A. in Law from Ewha Womans University.
Yukyong was invited as a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) at UC Berkeley from 2011 to 2013 when she expanded her research on recent legal reform to inter-Asian countries, including Japan, China and Taiwan. She served as a founding-fellow of the Judicial Policy Research Institute (JPRI) established under the Supreme Court of Korea since 2014. She also worked for the Ewha Institute for Biomedical Law and Ethics in 2015.
Since 2013, she has been teaching constitutional law, law & society, modern legal system & jurisprudence in diverse schools nationwide, including Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Ewha Womans Law School, etc. She has deepest interest in Globalization of the Korean Law that she has enriched academic relationships with the Korea Law Center at UC Berkeley and Center for the Korean Legal Studies at Columbia Law School by holding international conferences focusing on the Constitutional Changes issues & the Rule of Law in peacemaking in East Asia. She has been enthusiastically participated in ALSA since 2010, trying to reaching out her academic networks through Asia and worldwide. Her most recent publications are titled, “Ex-Post Legislative Evaluation on the Retail Business Development Act” (KLRI, 2017) and “Evaluation on the Korean Refugee Act of 2013 and Legal Approaches for Future Revision”(Ministry of Justice, 2016). “Who Watches the Watchmen: A Disciplinary System for Lawyers in Korea on Empirical Approaches” are forthcoming in 2018. 00Yukyong20Choe_Bio.docx

Lynette Chua
Lynette Chua is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore with research interests in legal mobilization, legal consciousness, and social movements. She is the author of The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as A Way of Life (Stanford University Press, 2019) and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State (Temple University Press, 2014), which was awarded the 2015 American Sociological Association's Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Prize. Her articles have appeared in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Development & Change, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Journal of Law & Courts, Asian Journal of Law & Society, and Journal of Law & Society. In herlatest research, she examines how the elderly, their families, and governments in several Asian societies deal with problems arising over who should care for the elderly, and the conditions under which they turn to state law. Lynette was the local organizing chair of the inaugural ALSA meeting. She is also a member of the Law & Society Association's Board of Trustees, and a member of the Asian Journal of Law & Society, Law & Policy, and American Political Science Review editorial boards. 01Lynette20Chua.docx

Matthew S. Erie
Matthew S. Erie (J.D., Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Research Fellow of the Socio-Legal Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Professor Erie’s interdisciplinary work stimulates conversations between law and anthropology. In particular, he investigates the emergence and reconciliation of conflicts of law and normative pluralism in the course of increasing intersections of non-liberal values and Anglo-American common law. His current research, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant, examines the impact of Chinese outbound capital on international economic law and the legal development of host states, many of them weak and fragile economies. Professor Erie previously held academic positions at Princeton University and NYU Law School, and he was a visiting scholar at the National University Singapore Law Faculty. In the fall 2018, he is a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Program of NYU Law School. He practiced law in the New York and Beijing offices of Paul Hastings LLP. He holds degrees from Cornell University (Ph.D., Anthropology), University of Pennsylvania (J.D.), Tsinghua University Law School (LL.M.), and Dartmouth College (B.A). Professor Erie is a member of the New York Bar, the American Society of International Law, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Law and Society Association 02Erie_Bio.docx

Mari Hirayama
Mari HIRAYAMA is Professor of Criminal Procedure & Criminology at Hakuoh University, Tochigi, Japan. She holds Master of Laws from Kwansei Gakuin University. She also holds LL.M. from University of Minnesota Law School (on the Fulbright Program). She has conducted research on lay participation in criminal justice system, especially issues in sex crime cases tried by the Lay Judge Trials. Recently she is also conducting research on videotaped interrogations and their status as evidence at criminal trials. Her recent publications are; “A Future Prospect of Criminal Justice Policy for Sex Crime in Japan-the Roles of the Lay Judge System There” in Jianhong Liu and Setsuo Miyazawa (eds.), Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan (Springer 2018) pp303-317, with Others『法システム入門―法社会学的アプローチ―（第4版）』［Introduction to the Justice System- Approach of Sociology of Law - 4th Edition］(in Japanese)(Shinzansya Publication 2018), “Introduction of Videotaping of Interrogations and the Lessons of the Imaichi Case: A Case of Conventional Criminal Justice Policy-Making in Japan” (with Setsuo Miyazawa), Washington International Law Review, Vol. 27 No. 1 (2017), pp.148-176.05Mari20HIRAYAMA20is20Professor20of20Criminal20Procedure.docx

Shu-chin Grace Kuo
Shu-chin Grace Kuo is professor of law in Department of Law, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan, ROC). Her research interests lie in the field of legal knowledge of civil dispute resolution, and include family law, civil procedure law, and alternative dispute resolution. In recent years, Professor Kuo focuses in the methods and theories of anthropology of law and ethnography of law. Professor Kuo’s research includes mandatory mediation, and more specifically relates to how the state assists or interferes with private parties in reconstructing the order of their personal lives through formal and informal negotiation under judicial supervision. Professor Kuo is the author of two books, Legal Anthropology, Legal Knowledge and Legal Techniques (Fa Lu Ren Rei Xue, Fa Lu Zh Sh, U Fa Lu Chi Shu, in Chinese, 2016), Family and Family Law Reconstruction ( Xen Dai Chia Tin Shen Huo De Zhung Zheng U Zai S, in Chinese, 2016). Her recent publications also include The Paradigm Shift of Civil Dispute Settlements in an Ethnographic Context: Studying Family Disputes (in Chinese), Academia Sinica Law Journal, March 2017; The Counseling Function of Family Court and Family Dispute Resolution (in Chinese), Shih Hsin Law Review, June 2016. Professor Kuo holds an SJD and an LLM from Northwestern University School of Law in the US and received her primary legal education in Taiwan, where she earned her LLB from National Taiwan University and passed the Bar Examination. Following the completion of her doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University, she was a visiting scholar of Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School. Her teaching areas include family law, civil procedure law, anthropology of law, and the cultural study of law. Her scholarly works have mainly been published in Chinese in Taiwan, and some have been published in English in the US and Korea. 07Grace20Kuo-20181025Bio.docx

Chulwoo Lee
Chulwoo Lee is Professor of Law at Yonsei Law School. He studied at Seoul National University (LL.B. and LL.M.), Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.). He held full-time faculty positions at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Sungkyunkwan University, and taught at the University of Washington School of Law as Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Asian Law (2011). His areas of academic interest include law and social theory, social history of law, and citizenship and nationhood. Among his publications are “Hegemony, Contestation, and Empowerment: The Politics of Law and Society Studies in South Korea” (Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2014), “How Can You Say You’re Korean? Law, Governmentality and National Membership in South Korea” (Citizenship Studies, 2012), and the book Immigration Law (2016, corresponding author with nine co-authors). Chulwoo Lee was President of the Korean Law and Society Association and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Asian Law and Society Association. At Yonsei, he worked as Director of the Institute of Legal Studies until August 2018. 08Chulwoo_Lee_bio28ALSA201829.docx

Carol Lin
Professor Carol Lin is a Distinguished Professor at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and Chair Professor of Social Justice of NCTU School of Law, Taiwan. Her research focuses on criminal law, white-collar crime, and feminist legal theories. She has been voted as Best Teacher Award twice (2009 and 2014), and her MOOC course “Love, Sex, and Law” was selected as the Best Online Course by Taiwan’s Youtube. She was appointed as judicial reform advisor by the President Tsai of Taiwan and helped to draft Taiwan’s domestic violence law, rape law, security fraud, anti-money laundering law, anti-corruption law, whistleblower protection law, and trade secret protection law. Lin obtained her LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from National Taiwan University College of Law, and her second LL.M degree and S.J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. She served as Conference Chair of the Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) Conference in December 2017. She was also awarded as Distinguished Professor and Law School’s Chair Professor in the spring of 2017. 09Carol20Lin.docx

Setsuo Miyazawa
Setsuo Miyazawa is Senior Visiting Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law and Professor Emeritus at Kobe University. He has Ph.D. in sociology from Yale and S.J.D. from Hokkaido University. He was a full-time faculty at Hokkaido, Kobe University, Waseda University, Omiya Law School, and Aoyama Gakuin University before reaching mandatory retirement in Japan in 2016. He held visiting positions at ten North American law schools including Harvard, UC Berkeley, and NYU before joining UC Hastings in 2008. He has extremely broad research interests, including criminal justice, legal education and legal profession, courts, and corporate legal practice. He represented progressive positions on many issues in justice system reform in Japan in the late 1990s through 2000s. He received the Distinguished Book Award from the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology in 1993 and the International Prize from the Law & Society Association in 2014. He co-founded CRN33 in the LSA, the Section of East Asian Law & Society in the Association of American Law Schools, and the Asian Law & Society Association (ALSA). He was the ALSA President in 2016-17 and will be the President of the Asian Criminological Society in 2019-21
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Eri Osaka
Eri Osaka is a Professor of Law at Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan, where she teaches Environmental Law and Civil Law. She is a 2000 graduate from Penn Law LLM program under the Fulbright Graduate Student Program, and also holds a BA and an MA in Law from Waseda University, Japan. She joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School SJD program in 2015. Her research interests lie in the legal response to mass toxic torts and mass disaster torts. Since the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, she has been studying the legal issues on victim compensation and recovery. She co-edited “Law and Policy of the Recovery from the Damage Caused by the Nuclear Accident” (Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2018) (in Japanese). She has served as a trustee of the Asian Law and Society Association, a board member of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, an editor of the Research on Environmental Disruption (Japan Environmental Council), an editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy) and so on. 10Osaka-Eri-bio.docx

Rob Leflar
Rob Leflar is Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law (Fayetteville), and at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is the author of “Informed Consent and Patients’ Rights in Japan,” opening that subject to English readers; “Discerning Why Patients Die: Legal and Political Controversies in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan,” and “The Law of Medical Misadventure in Japan.” His works have been published in Japanese translation, including the book “Nihon no Iryō to Hō: Infōmudo Konsento Runessansu [Law and Health Care in Japan: The Renaissance of Informed Consent].” He has received grants from the Center for Global Partnership (as an Abe Fellow), the Fulbright program, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He also writes and teaches in the areas of torts, products liability, and health policy. He has served as a visiting professor in the law faculties at the University of Tokyo and National Chiao Tung University, and will do the same at National Taiwan University in 2019. He has been an active member of ALSA since its founding, and he deeply appreciates nomination to the ALSA Trustee Board 11Reflar-Brief20bio20Leflar202018.docx

Amy Shee
Professor Amy Huey-Ling SHEE obtained her LLM at LSE (London) and PhD in law from Warwick University (UK) in 1995, since when she has been affiliated to National Chung Cheng University (CCU) in Taiwan. Apart from being a full-time Professor at the College of Law, Professor Shee also serves for the CCU as the Directors of the Taiwan Legal Information Institute (TaiwanLII) and the Centre for Human Research Ethics. Her research interests are mainly on Law and Society concerning the family, children and elderly people. Prof. Shee is also heavily involved in legal education reforms in Taiwan and has carried out legal clinic programmes supported by the Ministry of Education to take interdisciplinary students to learn about human rights in the field. As a socio-legal leader in child and woman right campaigns, Prof. Shee has been appointed as advisors to human right committees of governmental and non-governmental organs. In 2010, Prof. Shee received the honour of the “Child Protection Angel National Award” from the hands of the National President. 12AmyShee28ALSA2920181026.docx

Leon Wolff
Leon Wolff is an associate professor of law at the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. His research publications cover a diverse range of topics in Japanese law, including corporate governance, employment, litigiousness, gender equity, legal reform and popular culture. He also researches and writes on broader Asian and comparative law questions, the scholarship of learning and teaching (SOLT), and translation studies. Leon has two first-class honours degrees (and university medals) in both law and Japanese Studies; three masters degrees (Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation (MAJIT), Master of Laws in Asian and Comparative Law and Masters of Education (Higher Education); as well as three certificates / diplomas in legal practice, online teaching, and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL). He has been awarded Australian Research Council grants as well as Endeavour and Japan Foundation fellowships to support this research.
Leon is also decorated teacher with a senior fellowship from the Higher Education Academy (UK), two Vice-Chancellor's Awards for teaching excellence (UNSW and Bond University) and a National Citation for Contribution to Student Learning, among other institutional and national awards.
He is the founding co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) and foundation President of the Asia Pacific Legal Institute of Australia. He is the Chair of the Asian Law and Society Association 2018 Conference (ALSA2018) (29 November – 1 December 2018, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia). 15Wolff-Leon-Biography.docx